Private for-profit outlets are important treatment sources for malaria in most endemic countries. However, these outlets constitute only the last link in a chain of businesses that includes manufacturers, importers and wholesalers, all of which influence the availability, price and quality of antimalarials patients can access. We present evidence on the composition, characteristics and operation of these distribution chains and of the businesses that comprise them in six endemic countries (Benin, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). [Read More]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding to help increase access to family planning information, contraceptives and services in developing countries, particularly for young people. [Read more]
African Health Ministers expressed, Thursday, in Luanda, their commitment to the betterment of the health system in their respective countries, through the materialization of prevention and treatment of diseases programs. [Read More]
Compendium of Tools & Strategies to Achieve Universal Access to TB care for At-risk and Vulnerable Groups
The information compiled here is for the use of national TB program staff in high burden settings who are trying to identify strategies to reach at-risk and vulnerable communities more effectively. [Read More] African leaders and prominent institutions across the globe have agreed to boost local production of pharmaceutical products.
The effort, according to African Union, AU, Spokesperson, Janet Byaryhanga, is to help reduce import of pharmaceutical products into the continent from other developed nations, to engage experts in the pharmaceutical sector all over the world in order to address those involved in policy formulation in the health, finance and other sectors so as to provide all that are needed to drive the local pharmaceutical industry in Africa. [Read More] A recent editorial in the Lancet highlighted the synergies between the maternal, newborn and child health movements, calling for an integrated approach to the way the international health community funds, plans and implements care. Translating the continuum of care from theory into practice is an enormous challenge; however, recent consensus-building around the post-2015 global health agenda constitutes a tremendous opportunity to harmonize international frameworks, intervention packages and tools for measurement and evaluation. [Read More]
The slogan “make poverty history” has been used by development pundits and pop star philanthropists for years. Now, in a bid to turn words into deeds, it is being discussed as a universal global target to be met within a generation.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight poverty-reduction targets that were signed during a world summit in 2000, will be retired next year. Diplomats, aid experts and UN officials are currently negotiating the 15-year objectives that will replace them in 2016. [Read More] The Session of Senior Officials of the 9th Ordinary meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health is underway at the Zanzibar Beach Resort Hotel in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
At the official opening of the Session, Ms. Asha Ali Abdallahi, the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children, Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania called upon Partner States to closely harmonize and strengthen policies that improve access to high impact interventions thereby improving the quality of life in the EAC. [Read More] Global policymakers, meeting in Kigali earlier this month at the 2nd Global Conference on Biofortification, committed to making biofortified nutritious foods more widely available in order to improve nutrition and health for millions of people around the world. [Read More]
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